Forsythe Family History

Forsythe Name Meaning

Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name
Fearsithe, composed of the elements fear ‘man’ +
sith ‘peace’. Some early forms with prepositions, as for
example William de Fersith (Edinburgh 1365), seem to point to
an alternative origin as a habitational name, but no place name of
suitable form is known. The spelling Forsythe is associated
chiefly with northern Ireland.

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